08/13, 11:11am

Photon Q 4G LTE goes up for preorder, will ship beginning on August 19

The Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE has now gone up for pre-order up on Sprint's website. The horizontal slider has a hardware QWERTY keyboard and will ship on August 19, priced at $200. It's the first such device to offer international roaming capabilities and 4G LTE network support.

07/26, 5:30pm

Slide-out keyboard marks departure from predecessor

Motorola has made the Photon Q 4G LTE official. The replacement for the Photon 4G was spotted at the FCC earlier this month, sporting a 1280x720 display and departing from its predecessor's design by including a slide-out hardware keyboard, running on Android 4.0 instead of Gingerbread, and connecting to Sprint's forthcoming LTE network.